Chris A. Jackson Wrote:
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> George, Feel secure do you?
>
> Say something controversial and see how long it
> takes you to get banned. First you might want to
> look back at what happened to a few of the regular
> posters the other day that spoke up about the
> steam loco repair situation in CO. and then I dare
> you to ask what happened to them, I didn’t see
> that they were saying anything that out of line.
> It looked to me like they had posted under assumed
> names to get on the site because they must had
> been banned already for talking about unpleasant
> truths, but we may never figure that out unless we
> talk to them. I have not seen any of their
> posts since, so they must be banned. I have also
> not heard from a few other regular posters of the
> past that seemed to know a lot of what was really
> going on and then dared to speak up, they
> disappeared also.
>
> If I’m wrong where have all the descenters gone?
> Yes I hear the whiners and the criers, but I don’t
> see any useful info coming out of their mouths,
> all we seem to be getting these days is “what
> about the lettering on this” , “and the black suit
> on that”, who cares! Can’t we have some real
> important info, if sometime unpleasant, every now
> and then? I personally wanted to hear what
> those now long gone guys had to say, but I bet
> they will never share what they know now.
>
> I also have not heard from any one on this site
> defending any of the individuals that have been
> banned until this comment that I am writing now,
> and I am disgusted with all of you. Everyone
> that has not yet spoken up is a coward and
> deserves to be bullied by the group and be
> banished or worse.
>
> George why don’t you do something for all that
> liberty you speak of and you and I will find out
> what happened and tell their stories. Lets make
> sure what happened to those guys gets told to the
> whole site and we’ll let the group decide if they
> should get booted or banned or silenced or what
> ever by the site owners or not.
>
> Liberty costs us all and its easy to let the
> individuals get hurt, but we should all be
> prepared to pay for or liberty or we should at
> least feel guilty about enjoying it so much when
> we are not paying for it I’m attempting to pay
> may part here, who can help me?
>
> Chris Jackson- “Ferroquinologsit & Historian for
> the; NCO, Nevada Central & Carson & Colorado”
Chris refering to this
this post in the associated thread. In it "Loco112", an anonymous poster, called into question the competency of Jack Campbell in a particularly rude manner.
At that point I sent Loco112 an e-mail informing him that he would not be allowed to post until he identified himself see
this post for the behind the scenes e-mails between myself and "Loco112". In a nutshell he chose to threaten legal action to shut this website down - in a similar manner to the events at RYPN.
The only person who has been genuinely banned from this forum is Jay and various spammers (Tipcel, cheap v1@gra, etc). If anyone is having difficulty posting, please let me know and I'll look into it, there shouldn't be anyone other than the aforementioned spammers, who can't post.
From time to time I have found it necessary to put people in "time out" as I did with Loco112. People can get pretty angry, and it has happened that people have posted things and later asked that I go back and delete them. It was my judgment that Loco112 was in such a state of mind and in need of a little cool down time however he subsequently chose to withdraw from this forum, to quote: "Moderator, please delete my entire profile, close it out so that no other members will send messages there." He also decided not to follow through with legal action.
I'll let interested people read the above linked thread and decide for themselves.
Don